A state panel says $2.7 million should be given to the estate of an Arkansas woman who was killed in a 2009 high-speed collision with a trooper.

The award, recommended by the Arkansas Claims Commission on Thursday, has to be approved by the Legislature.

Commission Director Norman Hodges said the panel assigned 90 percent of the negligence to former state trooper Andrew Rhew.

Documents filed with the commission show Rhew traveled as fast as 103 mph in a 45 mph zone without his lights or siren on when the crash occurred on Nov. 3, 2009.

Rhew was on Arkansas Highway 77 in Manila and responding to a call regarding a person with an outstanding warrant in Osceola. Documents show that Rhew tried to brake before the crash and was going 87 mph one-tenth of a second before impact.

Vickie Freemyer, 52, of Blytheville, was killed when Rhew's cruiser broadsided her vehicle.

Rhew pleaded no contest to misdemeanor negligent homicide in 2011 in Mississippi County and was given a suspended sentence. The charge was reduced from felony manslaughter.

State police fired Rhew twice and reinstated him twice, but he resigned after being charged with drunken driving in Missouri in September. No listed phone number for Rhew could be located.

Hodges said Freemyer was assigned 10 percent of the blame for the crash because she appeared to have rolled through a stop sign prior to the crash.

Blytheville attorney Robert Coleman filed the case with the Claims Commission on Jan. 6, seeking $8 million for Freemyer's estate.

Coleman told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/U71V3n ) he requested the $8 million based on awards in similar wrongful-death cases.

"Surely no amount of money for one's loved one is enough," Coleman said.

Witness statements and crash data indicate Freemyer "slowed her vehicle in a manner consistent with looking both ways before crossing the intersection," according to Coleman's filing.

After hitting Freemyer, Rhew called a police dispatcher and said he had been in "one hell of an accident" and that "this ole gal is probably dead."

State police wouldn't comment, saying the case is in the hands of the attorney general's office.